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blindsider

noun

Etymology

From blindside + -er.

  1. derived from *sēy-✻ — “to send, throw, drop, sow, deposit”
  2. inherited from *sīdaz✻ — “drooping, hanging, low, excessive, extra”
  3. inherited from *sīd✻
  4. inherited from sīd — “wide, broad, spacious, ample, extensive, vast, far-reaching”
  5. inherited from side
  6. formed as blindside — “blind + side”
  7. suffixed as blindsider — “blindside + er”

Definitions

  1. One who or that which blindsides.

    • This, as we shall see, is one of the easiest ways for us to be blindsided. Chapter 2 exposes another set of perennial blindsiders: bubbles and crashes. Surely we have seen enough of these to recognise a new bubble when it comes our way?
    • I love Mumsnet because it is a rich tapestry of modern mothering with some hilarious blindsiders thrown in. In some ways the posts on Mumsnet are a bit like tabloid newspapers because they need to catch the eye for people to answer.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for blindsider. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA